ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,041, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS LLC (Lakeland, Fla.).

"Controlling network participants to select radio power levels that best serve the network and individual participants" was invented by Charles Robert Gorectke (Lakeland, Fla.), Ryan Scott Luther (Lakeland, Fla.) and Anthony Samuel Jacobs (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility that controls participants in an ad hoc peer wireless network to use transmission power level settings and routing paths that best serve individual participants in the network and the network as a whole is described. Variously, the facility modulates transmission powe...